Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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